From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Nov 21 06:42:16 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 51F7316A4CE for ; Fri, 21 Nov 2003 06:42:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.bronskill.com (mail.bronskill.com [206.47.145.35]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0363343FAF for ; Fri, 21 Nov 2003 06:42:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from oli@bronskill.com) Received: (qmail 19253 invoked from network); 21 Nov 2003 14:40:32 -0000 Received: from 206-47-145-36.ip.tor.radiant.net (HELO bronskill.com) (206.47.145.36) by mail.bronskill.com with SMTP; 21 Nov 2003 14:40:32 -0000 Message-ID: <3FBE2442.6070801@bronskill.com> Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2003 09:42:10 -0500 From: Oliver Neubauer User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org References: <3FBBC3AA.6050203@bronskill.com> <44d6blizq6.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <44d6blizq6.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.1 Subject: Re: loader(8) question X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: oli@bronskill.com List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2003 14:42:16 -0000 Hi, Actually, I found out that this was a disk geometry problem..... During the re-install, my / partition ended up being partly outside the addressable area of my (ancient) BIOS. A repartitioning, along with some BIOS changes and disk geometry settings and all was fixed. Thanks for the response though.... cheers o Lowell Gilbert wrote: >[Note: redirected to freebsd-stable] > >Oliver Neubauer writes: > > > >>Hello, >> >>I just recently upgraded from 4.3 to 4.9 RELEASE by doing a clean install. >>While I am able to boot the system fully, I have noticed the error >>message "no /boot/loader" upon inital boot, with: "loader(8) metadata >>missing" showing up a bit later one during the boot process. >> >>I don't know about the second message, but I can definitely say that >>/boot/loader exists with rx permission for all.....I haven't changed a >>thing since installing. >> >>I've come across quite a few questions about this in forums and >>whatnot, but very little in the way of answers. Can anyone shed some >>light? >> >>dmesg follows >> >>Thanks! >>o >> >>Copyright (c) 1992-2003 The FreeBSD Project. >>Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 >> The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. >>FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE #0: Wed Nov 19 12:12:57 EST 2003 >> root@smpbsd:/usr/src/sys/compile/SMPBSD >>Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz >>CPU: Pentium Pro (199.43-MHz 686-class CPU) >> Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0x619 Stepping = 9 >> Features=0xfbff >>real memory = 234881024 (229376K bytes) >>avail memory = 225148928 (219872K bytes) >>Programming 24 pins in IOAPIC #0 >>IOAPIC #0 intpin 2 -> irq 0 >>FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor motherboard: 2 CPUs >> cpu0 (BSP): apic id: 1, version: 0x00040011, at 0xfee00000 >> cpu1 (AP): apic id: 0, version: 0x00040011, at 0xfee00000 >> io0 (APIC): apic id: 2, version: 0x00170011, at 0xfec00000 >>Pentium Pro MTRR support enabled >>md0: Malloc disk >>npx0: on motherboard >>npx0: INT 16 interface >>pcib0: on motherboard >>IOAPIC #0 intpin 19 -> irq 2 >>IOAPIC #0 intpin 18 -> irq 10 >>pci0: on pcib0 >>isab0: at device 1.0 on pci0 >>isa0: on isab0 >>atapci0: port 0xe800-0xe80f at device 1.1 >>on pci0 >>ata0: at 0x1f0 irq 14 on atapci0 >>ata1: at 0x170 irq 15 on atapci0 >>ahc0: port 0xe000-0xe0ff mem >>0xf9000000-0xf9000fff irq 2 at device 9.0 on pci0 >>aic7860: Ultra Single Channel A, SCSI Id=7, 3/253 SCBs >>pci0: at 10.0 irq 10 >>vr0: port 0xd800-0xd87f mem >>0xf8800000-0xf880007f irq 2 at device 13.0 on pci0 >>vr0: Ethernet address: 00:50:ba:a1:a7:5b >>miibus0: on vr0 >>amphy0: on miibus0 >>amphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto >>orm0: